Duke Careers-posted 3 months ago
Full-time • Entry Level
Hybrid • Durham, NC
5,001-10,000 employees

The Duke Psychiatric Advanced Clinical-Translational Idea Lab (PACTiLab) utilizes a multidisciplinary collaborative team to focus on the translational development of new treatments for psychiatric illnesses (with a special emphasis on addictive and mood disorders). Our mission is to take mechanistic ideas into the clinical-research setting in the hopes of traversing the translational bridge (performing human laboratory trials, translational treatment trials from phase-1 to phase-3, and research aimed at more directly improving clinical care). Our group embraces the tripartite academic medicine mission. Lab-members are subsequently encouraged to advance science through research, teach what they know, and improve clinical care through treatment trials. The lab has expertise in the use of neuromodulation techniques including repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), but is agnostic regarding treatment modality, focused rather on any intervention that has the potential to improve how we treat psychiatric disorders. We are excited to invite a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to join the team and help manage our clinical-translational program in psychiatry. We are considering candidates with both certifications, but only one position will be filled. This will initially be a 100% clinical-research position, though there may be room for a hybrid clinical-research / clinical position in the future.

  • Interfacing with Duke and community clinics for clinical-research participant recruitment and enrollment.
  • Performing enrollment screening visits (structured psychiatric interviews, clinical histories and physicals, lab and imaging review).
  • Delivering structured psychotherapy (Motivational Enhancement Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, etc.).
  • Performing clinical assessments (including structured outcome assessments and adverse event assessments).
  • Clinically managing adverse events and urgent clinical issues (such as suicidality) in the clinical research studies.
  • Supervising and delivering repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) and other interventions such as study-medications.
  • Assisting in the review and design of research protocols.
  • Work requires a bachelor's degree in Health Science and a Physician Assistant Certificate of Registration with the North Carolina Medical Board or be certification eligible, and be certified as a Physician Assistant by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
  • Requires completion of a bachelor's degree in Health Science and a Physician Assistant Certificate of Registration with the North Carolina Medical Board, or eligibility for certification. Must also be certified as a Physician Assistant by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
  • No prior experience is required beyond the education/training requirements. Equivalent combinations of relevant education and/or experience may be considered.
  • Strong interpersonal and clinical skills
  • Strong drive to improve both our understanding of psychiatric illness, and also our ability to treat it.
  • Comprehensive and competitive medical and dental care programs
  • Generous retirement benefits
  • A wide array of family-friendly and cultural programs
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